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...spurt of skill of Detroit Third Baseman Reno Bertoia? For two full seasons, and even this spring, Bonus Baby Bertoia sometimes performed like a crossfoot clown in the field and was too tense at bat to hit his hat size. Still, as the season started, Bertoia was given the nod over Jim Finigan to play third. He has yet to make an error, and at week's end he was second in the American League in batting with a hefty .375 (behind Boston's Ted Williams...
...write when you can talk; don't talk when you can nod your head...
...Koran (printed in Israel), he told the court: "I know those cows as I know my children." Could he describe them, asked the court? Yes, said Mustafa, one had a very large udder, the other a twisted horn. The prosecutor and the judge looked at each other with a nod of assent. The truck in which the cows lowed sorrowfully was opened and the beasts clomped out-one with an extra-large udder, the other with a twisted horn...
Defining the relative importance of Test scores and college records, Toepfer wrote, "It is the Test Score which decides who gets the nod," but the college record puts applicants in a ranked category "where the nods are few or frequent...
...before little Jim learned to walk, father taught him to play ball. Every day after school he made the boy run. slide, throw, catch until his hands hung dead on his wrists. "We're going for the big leagues, boy," he would mutter fiercely, and the child would nod fiercely in agreement. At 17 Jim was a spectacular outfielder whose all-round talents won the state championship for his high-school team; but his father was never satisfied. "How'd I do, dad?" Jim asked anxiously after playing a prodigious game. And father implacably replied...